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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in e-learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOC courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning organizations must deal with now that e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations certify that the education provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Canada to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage poor motivation and high attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these significant new open education ventures. Universities want to know how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This gripping new book also examines the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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